The man with the sign ‘Grand Hotel Royal’ awaits me on the platform at Keleti railway station. He takes my bags and me to the hotel. The doorman opens the car. Arrived – home. The chief concierge greets from the concierge box, the r...

One of the rare hotels built during World War 1, the "Great War". It was opened two month before the war ended, so it is in fact a hotel of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It quickly became a legend in the Hungarian capital and still, to this day, remai...

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